AI-Powered 3D Printed Stop Motion, Live on Stage | Prash Makes | PRINTED Hub 2026

Prash Makes turns 3D printers into storytellers: every printed layer is a frame of a stop motion animation, perfectly timed to music and lyrics. At PRINTED Hub 2026 he shows how the process works, how painfully manual it used to be, and then builds a complete lyric animation live on stage in about five minutes with a tool he created with AI. Yes, the audience got rickrolled. His real message goes beyond time lapses: AI does not have to kill creativity. Used the right way, it removes the tedious parts so you can create more, at the same quality, in your own style. Speaker: Prashanthan Ganeswaran, 3D Print Animation Creator (Prash Makes) CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:51 How 3D printed stop motion works 2:05 Examples and syncing audio to layers 3:39 The old manual workflow: Resolve, spreadsheets, SolidWorks 7:04 Where AI comes in 7:43 Live demo: the audience vote 8:38 Rickrolled on stage 9:21 Fetching and syncing the lyrics 10:41 Fitting the lyrics into the model 13:46 From hours to five minutes 15:00 The real point: AI in the creative process 16:35 Workshop and outro Recorded at PRINTED Hub 2026, Main Stage, 25 September 2026. Next up: PRINTED Worldconference 2027 Leiden, near Amsterdam, 21–22 May 2027 Super Early Bird tickets: https://geni.us/PAmkj More: https://printed-europe.com Credits Audio: Andras Pozsgai Vision Mixer: Lars Fechner Director: Marvin Enghardt Camera: Tobias Pruß, Florian Sprotte Photographer: Sebastian Süptitz Production Manager: Carl Rehberg #3DPrinting #StopMotion #AI #PRINTEDHub ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAGS: 3d printing, stop motion, 3d printed animation, time lapse, prash makes, ai, artificial intelligence, creative workflow, lyrics animation, bambu lab, solidworks, printed hub 2026, printed europe, maker, live demo